"Jon" <spam@jonparker.plus.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.20847896d85afcc998a8a7@text.usenet.plus.n et...
> "Road_Hog®" <No Spam> declared for all the world to hear...
>> > Well, if I told you that the penalty for IMEI changing is a maximum of
>> > 5
>> > years in prison, would you class that as bad?
>
>> Well, no one said anything about changing it.
>
> It already has been changed though, so changing back (what you call
> repairing) is still an offence.
> --
> Regards
> Jon

In my opinion, restoring the number to what it was originally what not be
deemed an offense under the act quoted. If the IMEI is currently all zeros
then that probably counts as no IMEI at all, so to restore the original
would not be a "changing" of the number.

However, the penalty being as stiff as it is, I doubt if any repairer would
want to be the first test case, aspecially if the job only earns him a
tenner. He's gonna say no thanks, not worth the risk.